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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
The Fine Furniture Design Bedroom Poster Bed King 6.6 1050-767.768.769 is a great choice for a bed that your kid will grow into.
Sharing the bedroom can help children bond. It can also teach them to compromise and this is a good thing since most siblings squabble. Spending some time on how you design the bedroom will reduce the quarrels and bickering. Here are some tips on how you can make your little ones share this supposedly restful area –
Ask for the Kids’ Opinion
If you want the design to be more successful, then be ready to include the kids in making the decision regarding their bedroom design. Young children will be more than willing to pick out the linens and wall arts that will be placed in their room. If you want a bedroom that will grow up with your kids, then be sure to steer them away from the cartoon character section.
Another way to involve the kids in decision making is to consider their individual personalities. If you can, have each child decorate a separate section of the room, then do so. Each one could have a wall covered with the kind of art that they go crazy over. Just make sure that their choices complement each other by providing them with an edited selection where they could take their pick.
Establish Some Privacy
Even when you are setting up a small bedroom, make sure that each child is given some private space. You can achieve this with compartments, individual desks, or separate toy boxes.
Set Some Rules
There are bound to be arguments but your role is to keep them to a bare minimum. You need to help your little ones learn to respect each other. You can begin by discussing that their personal properties should be just that – their personal properties. You should set the rule that they must ask for permission before they touch any of the other sibling’s personal properties. Teach them also that it is important to knock before opening the door. When the kids know about the rules, then they are likelier to adhere to them.
The Hooker Furniture Bedroom Vintage West Nine-Drawer Dresser has ample drawers to hold clothes and other stuff.
Involve Even the Youngest Kids
Families that live in smaller homes often have their youngest kid sleep with the parents. More often than not, they spend longer time than necessary especially when the parents do not want to disrupt the routine of an older child.
Don’t fear because in most cases, children can adapt quickly. In fact, they are even happy to share the room with their sister or brother. If you doubt this, then ask other families that have already experienced moving a younger kid to the older one’s bedroom.
Set Boundaries
Apart from the rules, it would also help if you keep the younger child from messing up with the older kid’s possessions. To do this, have the older kids’ toys or properties kept inside a closet or at a height where the younger one won’t be able to reach.
A Secret Place
Remember that everyone needs a hideaway now and then – even little kids. You don’t have to set up a custom hideaway, it can be a simple playhouse or a tepee a few feet away from their beds. This area has to be somewhere where your little ones will enjoy each other’s company without the penetrating gaze of a parent.
A Place for Everything
It is not just important to free up floor space but also other areas of the new bedroom. It is easy for the kids’ bedroom to become messy especially when they have their play area there, too. Children play and horse around so be ready to set up a storage space that can hold all of their stuff.
Most kids are happy about the prospect of sleeping in bunk beds so let them. The underside of beds can also be storage areas for shoes or toys. Better yet, have a special cabinet or chest in their bedroom. The more drawers each cabinet has, the more stuff it can hold.
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
1586-75203-GLD3 Shangri-La Gilded Dining Table Base: This two-seater setup is perfect for that nook in your home. Don’t forget to decorate with vases and framed art.
Any room that lacks space either for seating or cupboards needs a little inspiration. Sometimes, all it takes is a little imagination, a smart storage space, a smaller sofa, and the problem is solved. Add a spotlight to the underside of a shelf and you’ve just created a reading nook. So, here’s the thing, you have a space problem and every home has an unused nook to spare – got the solution?
Breakfast Nook
If you don’t have ample room for dining table and chairs, that tiny space right where the walls meet could serve as a cute breakfast nook. This is especially if you don’t mind dining cozily. Use a bench if you want to fit in more people to that area. Chairs take up more area than one long bench so consider ditching them when you want to use the tiny corner.
Reading Nook
The reading nook need not look intentional. You can incorporate a small library just by having a tiny desk paired with a stylish chair and have them placed in a corner. Have a small pile of books at that desk, and that’s it. Your home library doesn’t have to comprise of a huge bookshelf. Just grab one book, read, finish reading, then put it right back to the pile.
Office Nook
A small space is perfect for working niches. Most people just have their laptops these days so these won’t even require more than 30 inches of space. A little closet can be easily transformed into your dream office nook.
Laundry Nook
How much space do you think you need to move freely in a laundry space? Just 30 inches by 30 inches! Just have the stackable type of washer and dryer and you should be able to transform the tiny nook into a laundry area. Handle the spills by having it diverted towards the bathroom.
Play Pen
As a kid, didn’t you just love having your tiny play spot? Having kids of your own now, that nook could be a nice spot to hide kids’ mess. The world of possibilities just seems endless with that tiny nook. You can now store all the kids’ toys there, their storybooks, etc.
Pet’s Nook
Your pet would surely love his own nook, too. This could serve as a retreat spot where his mess could be contained. Set up your pet’s tiny bed in that corner and you just might get the extra blessing of having an unscratched sofa.
An Entertainment Corner
If you want an entertainment spot but do not want the TV to be the focal point in the room, then just set up that tiny nook to become the TV’s home. That dedicated nook will be used for TV viewing only while you can have the rest of your home for socializing.
Resting Nook
Who says you can’t sleep in that tiny corner? Set up a sofa bed and this is the perfect spot for all your guest sleepovers. You would be surprised at the stylishness that sofa beds can offer. You can also have two sofa beds pushed together to create an instant double bed. This part of your home could also be utilized as a reading corner during most days of the year. Just prop the sofa bed and what a relaxing reading time you’d have. The linens could be hidden neatly inside a trunk during the day.
Kid’s Bedroom
Believe it or not, you can actually fit a loft bed into a nook, one that preferably has a drawer so that bed linens can be concealed. Put a little color and a small partition and your kid will surely love you for ‘em!
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